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Cynthia Hawkins
Cynthia Hawkins (born January 29, 1950) is a painter and sculptor. In February 2023, Hawkins was awarded the Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting. Early life and education Cynthia Hawkins was born to Elease Coger Hawkins and Robert D. Hawkins on January 29, 1950. Raised in Queens, New York, Hawkins is the eldest of 5 siblings. Her early fascination with prehistoric art would later manifest in a career as an artist. As a child, Hawkins spent time watching art instructor Jon Gnagy on the television program "Learn to Draw" and as a teenager, taught herself watercolor painting. After graduating from John Bowne High School in 1968, Hawkins took classes at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and later the Provincetown Workshop. In 1969, she began taking Saturday drawing classes at the Art Students League and took classes part-time at Queens College. By the early 1970s, Hawkins became a full time student and though she had considered pursuing several other career paths, she ultimately dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Gnagy
Jon Gnagy (January 13, 1907 – March 7, 1981) was a self-taught artist most remembered for being America's original television art instructor, hosting '' You Are an Artist'', which began on the NBC network and included analysis of paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, and his later syndicated Learn to Draw series. As of 1986, over fifteen million of Gnagy's drawing kits had been sold.Holston, Noel"The Unfinished Work Of Jon Gnagy His Dream May Finally Be Realized Through His Daughter" ''Orlando Sentinel'', July 20, 1986 The Philadelphia-based Martin F. Weber Company still manufactures Gnagy's drawing kits. Gnagy also worked on book illustrations including ''The Coit Fishing Pole Club Beginner's Book of Fishing '' and ''The Nature of Things.'' Life and career According to his 1947 instruction book, his TV program ''You Are an Artist'' "had at this writing by far the longest run of any program emanating from the NBC television studios." His biography, published in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Amos (painter)
Emma Amos (16 March 1937 – 20 May 2020) was a Postmodernist art, postmodern African Americans, African-American Painting, painter and printmaker. Early life Amos was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1937 to India DeLaine Amos and Miles Green Amos. She also has an older brother named Larry. Amos took an interest in art at an early age, creating "masses of paper dolls" and learning figure drawing from issues of ''Esquire (magazine), Esquire'' and the art of Alberto Vargas, was painting the figure by the age of nine. Her mother had aspirations of Amos studying with Hale Woodruff, but he did not accept many private students and left the area before she had the opportunity to study with him. At eleven, Amos took a course at Morris Brown College, where she worked on her Drafter, draftsmanship and took note of the work that African Americans, African American Student, college students were producing at the time. By Secondary school, high school, Amos was submitting her work to Clark Atlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |